I ran ~ 10-12 google searches for some of my item categories. One pair of earrings that showed up had no sales.
However, a pair of larger unusual earrings and the matching necklace (sold separately) were both in MakerPlace ads. I sold 2 pairs of the earrings and 1 necklace on MakerPlace. In 5 years on Amazon, I sold 0.
Ok, this is a seriously interesting observation. I think you are right. The only ads I’m seeing of my stuff, using different keywords, are listings with variations. 
And though I was careful not to click on the ads, I checked out a few other MP ads items, found those listings on the site, and sure enough they all have variations.
That is interesting and seems to be the case with mine as well. Off to add ear wire variations.
My thoughts exactly. I have discovered that once a listing has sold, it is no longer editable for variations, which won’t affect most of mine. 
I was just discovering that. 
Also trying to pull up a report showing sales tax locations for my 2023 sales tax return. The date range reports selection on all reports is seriously flawed in both chrome and firefox.
I reported this and didn’t get a good answer - There is a CSV that you can download with transactions, but the address is all in one block. I asked them to split the State into a separate block for sorting.
I edited all of my variations today (prices at least) via spreadsheet upload. That might work? Unfortunately it throws them all into Draft, but it only took me about an hour to reactivate the 120 or so I have live.
This is good information to know which I will use when I start adding new listings to MakerPlace.
Marilyn
I cannot get a date range to stock with all transactions from 1/1/2023-12/31/2023. All it gives me is about 2 months of transactions. Wonkiest POS programing I’ve ever seen
I’m on CNN and there’s a huge 1/2 page banner ad showing 8 of my listings. I mean - clearly targeting the wrong person, but they’re definitely spending a ton of money.
I use YoutubeTV for my live streaming service and they are doing tons of regular Michael’s ads but I have not noticed them being Makerplace. Hoping you get slammed from it!
I assume it’s a targeted ad for me - since it’s my listings so I looked at them? But at least it shows they’re putting some work in!
That’s same as the emails I received from Michaels, encourage me to buy my own items. 
I assumed you were talking about CNN streamed thru a provider like YoutubeTV or Sling…not an internet browser stream??
Sorry, no - it was on their website on my laptop 
I wasn’t clear.
It also showed up on some other random website I was on - so they’re pushing targeted ads. At the wrong person, alas!
I find the concept of targeted ads interesting. I know the theory is they are showing me ads of things I’ve looked at…
Almost always they are ads of things I have already bought. Maybe I am too much of an impulse purchaser? Like my coffee maker broke and I researched a new one and bought it same day…and yet I’m still getting ads from everyone about coffee makers. Annoying because I don’t need to buy one, I already did.
I know these companies have no real “control” over the “content” of their ads…they put their trust into the algorithms, and I kinda just laugh at all the money they wasted trying to target me. There is no “timeframe” on content…like sure if it’s an expensive item maybe someone is willing to wait…but the company its self has no idea I’m being shown coffeemakers. It’s just being told that I’m being shown something I’ve looked at….and I guess that’s just “good enough” lol.
But it makes me question if I was to ever want to spend my own money to advertise….I suppose it really comes down to the content you are advertising. If it’s a product that people are going to buy over and over or it’s on sale and maybe someone waited that might work?
So funny, I’m just so wah wah poor me the ads show me things I have already bought…what a first world problem to have lol.
So many thoughts so little time 
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